And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
yeah, my uncle gave me his old wooden Dynamite box. I cleaned it up and sealed in up. then went into the army for a few years. when I came back home, I found that my parents had tossed it out in the trash while I gone. but then again, they tossed out a lot of neat stuff I had back then.
I’ve said it before. In the 50s and early 60s at least, I knew a few hardware stores in rural areas here in the west stocked dynamite, fuse, and caps. Caps were under the counter. Their customers were farmers and ranchers with a need to remove stumps or boulders for ranch roads. They were careful to sell to responsible folks and the ranchers knew that if they were careless that the hardware store bore zero responsibility to them for any dismembering. Generally they sold them not by the case, though.
My great uncle was a township supervisor. One day he and a helper used dynamite to remove a tree stump along a creek. They spent the next 3 days hauling gravel to fill it in. I kind of imagine it was like blowing up that dead beached whale...............
In 1976, our local hardware sold dynamite by the case, I know because I bought a case along with a box of blasting caps and lots of fuse. Had to fill out one yellow page of of questions. When we had finished with it, we had 8-10 sticks, we put the last under a stump far from the house and a friend of mine shot it with a .270 rifle. Stump wasn't heard of again!
In a time where we learned restraint and also learned from our mistakes. Now we live in Nannyland…
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ReplyDeleteCool, added it to my collection of subversive material.
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ReplyDeleteyeah, my uncle gave me his old wooden Dynamite box. I cleaned it up and sealed in up. then went into the army for a few years. when I came back home, I found that my parents had tossed it out in the trash while I gone.
ReplyDeletebut then again, they tossed out a lot of neat stuff I had back then.
The government doesn't trust us, but we're supposed to trust them?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure they don't recommend putting the box of caps right next to the dynamite.
ReplyDeleteAn old timer told me once that if one packs sugar under a stump, it can provide enough explosive force to blow the stump.
ReplyDeleteSo you're trying to tell us sugar, by itself, is an explosive?
DeletePull the other one, it has bells on it.
Or put the whole story together correctly.
And for pure entertainment, y'all might want to run over to youtube and do a search on "jimmy ferris spur texas" for a GREATdynamite story.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fun cautionary tale.
DeleteI’ve said it before. In the 50s and early 60s at least, I knew a few hardware stores in rural areas here in the west stocked dynamite, fuse, and caps. Caps were under the counter. Their customers were farmers and ranchers with a need to remove stumps or boulders for ranch roads. They were careful to sell to responsible folks and the ranchers knew that if they were careless that the hardware store bore zero responsibility to them for any dismembering. Generally they sold them not by the case, though.
ReplyDeleteMy great uncle was a township supervisor.
ReplyDeleteOne day he and a helper used dynamite to remove a tree stump along a creek.
They spent the next 3 days hauling gravel to fill it in.
I kind of imagine it was like blowing up that dead beached whale...............
In 1976, our local hardware sold dynamite by the case, I know because I bought a case along with a box of blasting caps and lots of fuse. Had to fill out one yellow page of of questions. When we had finished with it, we had 8-10 sticks, we put the last under a stump far from the house and a friend of mine shot it with a .270 rifle. Stump wasn't heard of again!
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